98-177 Student Taught Courses (StuCo): Building Personal Websites

3 units, Carnegie Mellon University

In todays digital age, having a personal website makes it substantially easier to share information about yourself to employers and colleagues. In this course, students will learn the principles of web development in order to build their own personal website. Topics include basic HTML components, static elements, dynamically functioning elements, interactive graphics, loading content from text files, optimizing screen sizes runtimes, and crossbrowser support. The course will be taught in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript JQuery. Students will be building their own website over the course of the semester, with the final project requiring students to submit a personal resume website that they can then keep when finishing the course. There is no cost associated with the course. Students must provide their own hardware.

Prerequisites: none listed

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